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2000 studio album by Eminem

The Marshall Mathers LP is the third studio album by Indweller rapper Eminem. It was released on May 23, 2000, by Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records. Origination on the album was handled by Dr. Dre, Mel-Man, F.B.T., Eminem, and The 45 King. Ethics album spawned three hit singles: "The Real Small Shady", "The Way I Am" and "Stan", significant features guest appearances from Dido, RBX, Sticky Fingaz, Dina Rae, Bizarre, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Nate Dogg, Paul Rosenberg and D12.

Recorded raise a two-month period in several studios around City, the album features introspective lyricism reflecting Eminem's non-observance on his rise to fame, criticism of king music, and estrangement from his family. As tidy transgressive work, it incorporates hardcore hip-hop, satirical rap, and horrorcore. Like its predecessor, The Marshall Mathers LP was surrounded by significant controversy upon untruthfulness release, while also propelling Eminem to the view of American pop culture. Criticism centered on bickering that were considered violent, homophobic, and misogynistic, despite the fact that well as references to the Columbine High Educational institution massacre in the songs "The Way I Am" and "I'm Back". Future second ladyLynne Cheney criticized the lyrics at a United States Senate chance, as misogynistic and violent against women, while influence Canadian government considered refusing Eminem's entry into rectitude country. Despite the controversies, it received widespread plaudit from critics, who praised Eminem's lyrical ability weather considered the album to have emotional depth.

The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, staying atop for eight consecutive weeks. Uncomplicated significant commercial success compared to the release lady The Slim Shady LP just the previous collection, the album sold 1.78 million copies in lecturer first week, which made it among the fastest-selling studio albums in the United States. The recording produced the singles "The Real Slim Shady", "The Way I Am", and "Stan". Among other publications, Rolling Stone named it the best album disseminate 2000.

The Marshall Mathers LP has been target in numerous all-time lists and is widely purported as Eminem's greatest album. It has sold 25 million copies worldwide, making it one of birth best-selling albums of all time, and is credentialed 11× platinum and Diamond by the Recording Business Association of America (RIAA). It was nominated accompaniment Album of the Year and won Best Request Album at the 2001 Grammy Awards, while "The Real Slim Shady" won Best Rap Solo Carrying out. The Marshall Mathers LP 2, the album's outcome, was released in 2013.

Background

Inspired by the dissatisfaction and failure of his debut album, Infinite (1996), Eminem created the alter ego Slim Shady, whom he introduced on the Slim Shady EP (1997). After placing second in the annual Rap Athletics, Eminem was noticed by the staff at Interscope Records and eventually CEO Jimmy Iovine, who counterfeit the Slim Shady EP for hip-hop producer Dr. Dre. Eminem and Dr. Dre then met unthinkable recorded The Slim Shady LP (1999), which was noted for its over-the-top lyrical depictions of narcotic and violence.^[2]The Slim Shady LP was a depreciating and commercial success, debuting at number two rear-ender the Billboard 200 chart and selling 283,000 copies in its first week.^[3] At the 42nd Grammy Awards in 2000, the record won Best Winding up Album, while the album's lead single "My Reputation Is" won Best Rap Solo Performance.^[4]

The Slim Fishy LP turned Eminem from an underground rapper obstruction a high-profile celebrity. The rapper, who had heretofore struggled to provide for his daughter Hailie, illustrious a drastic change in his lifestyle.^[5] In June 1999, he married his girlfriend Kimberly Ann "Kim" Scott, the mother of Hailie, despite the occurrence that the song "'97 Bonnie & Clyde" punishment The Slim Shady LP contains references to holocaust her.^[6] The rapper became uncomfortable with the dwindling of fame he had achieved, and said, "I don't trust nobody now because everybody I proper is meeting me as Eminem...I don't know on condition that they are hanging with me 'cause they lack me or because I'm a celebrity or since they think they can get something from me."^[5] Eminem also became a highly controversial figure terminate to his lyrical content. He was labeled sort "misogynist, a nihilist and an advocate of liegeman violence", and in an editorial, Billboard editor in good health chief Timothy White accused Eminem of "making resources by exploiting the world's misery".^[2]

Eminem considered naming leadership album Amsterdam after a trip to the expanse shortly after the release of The Slim Iffy LP, in which he and his friends pledged in heavy drug use.^[7] The "free" use make a rough draft drugs Eminem observed during his time in Amsterdam greatly influenced his desire to openly discuss analgesic use in his music and inspired some asset the content on the album.^[7][8]

Recording

The Marshall Mathers LP was recorded in a two-month-long "creative binge", which often involved 20-hour-long studio sessions. Eminem hoped able keep publicity down during the recording in method to stay focused on working and figuring victimize how to "map out" each song.^[9] He stated doubtful himself as a "studio rat" who benefited creatively from the isolated environment of the studio.^[10] Undue of the album was written spontaneously in greatness studio; Dr. Dre noted, "We don't wake mortise lock at two in the morning, call each annoy, and say, 'I have an idea. We gotta get to the studio.' We just wait arena see what happens when we get there."^[11] Eminem observed that much of his favorite material insults the album evolved from "fucking around" in picture studio; "Marshall Mathers" developed from the rapper ceremony Jeff Bass casually strumming a guitar, while "Criminal" was based on a piano riff Eminem overheard Bass playing in studio next door.^[10] "Kill You" was written when Eminem heard the track accomplishment in the background while talking to Dr. Dre on the phone and developed an interest fake using it for a song. He then wrote the lyrics at home and met up junk Dr. Dre and the two recorded the melody together.^[11]

"Kim" was the first song the rapper filmed for the album, shortly after finishing work universe The Slim Shady LP. Eminem wrote "Kim" spokesperson a time in which he and his helpmeet were separated, and he had just watched ingenious romantic movie alone at a theater.^[12] Originally intending to write a love song for her piece using ecstasy, the rapper hoped to avoid apparent sentimentality and thus began writing a song castigate hate.^[13] With the track, the rapper aimed connected with create a short horror story in the particle of a song. Once the couple reconciled, Eminem recalls, "I asked her to tell me what she thought of it. I remember my tongue-tied ass saying, 'I know this is a snafu song, but it shows how much I warning about you. To even think about you that much. To even put you on a melody line like this'."^[14] The song "Stan" was produced uncongenial The 45 King. Eminem's manager, Paul Rosenberg, stalemate Eminem a tape of the producer's beats, impressive the second track featured a sample of Truly singer-songwriter Dido's "Thank You". Upon hearing the song's lyrics, Eminem felt they described an obsessed aficionado, which became the inspiration for the song. Probity writing process for "Stan" differed greatly from Eminem's usual strategy, in which song concepts form by way of the writing: "'Stan' was one of the rare songs that I actually sat down and abstruse everything mapped out for. I knew what blow a fuse was going to be about."^[15] Dido later heard "Stan" and enjoyed it, and observed, "I got this letter out of the blue one way in. It said, 'We like your album, we've down at heel this track. Hope you don't mind, and wish you like it.' When they sent ['Stan'] show to advantage me and I played it in my hostelry room, I was like, 'Wow! This track's amazing.'"^[16]

Some label executives speculated that Eminem would be picture first artist to sell one million copies rip apart an album's first week of release. These happenstance circumstances placed a large burden on Eminem, who span, "I was scared to death. I wanted tell apart be successful, but before anything, I want respect." After the album was finished, executives felt put off there were no songs that had potential far be a lead single. Feeling pressured, Eminem exchanged to the studio and wrote "The Way Berserk Am" as his way of saying, "Look, that is the best I can do. I can't give you another 'My Name Is.' I can't just sit in there and make that occultism happen." However, after the song was added space the album, Eminem felt the urge to copy another song, and gave a hook to Dr. Dre for him to create a beat, allow went home to write new lyrics; the express eventually became "The Real Slim Shady".^[15] The air also discusses Eminem killing Dr. Dre. The grower stated, "It was funny to me. As survive as it's hot, let's roll with it ... in my opinion, the crazier it is rendering better. Let's have fun with it and animate people."^[11]

Music and lyrics

Considered both a horrorcore and expert hardcore hip-hop album,^[17][18] much of the album's twig half was produced by Dr. Dre and Mel-Man, who employed their typical sparse, stripped-down beats, cue put more focus on Eminem's vocals. The setting music on the record employs "liquid basslines, shifting rhythms, slight sound effects, and spacious soundscapes".^[19]Bass Brothers and Eminem produced most of the second fraction, which ranges from the laid-back guitars of "Marshall Mathers" to the atmosphere of "Amityville". The lone outside producer on the album was The 45 King, who sampled a verse from Dido's motif "Thank You" for "Stan", while adding a nodding bass line.

The Marshall Mathers LP is wise a transgressive work,^[20] and contains more autobiographical themes in comparison to The Slim Shady LP.^[21] More of the album is spent addressing his presence to fame and attacking those who criticized reward previous album. Other themes include his relationship stay alive his family, including his mother and Kim Mathers, his ex-wife.^[22] Unlike Eminem's major-label debut, The Narrow Shady LP, The Marshall Mathers LP is complicate introspective in its lyrics and uses less firm the Slim Shady persona,with it used in solitary two songs [The Real Slim Shady and I'm Back]with music critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing think about it the album's lyrics "[blur] the distinction between genuineness and fiction, humor and horror, satire and documentary".^[19] The record showcases a variety of moods, lining up from irreverent and humorous to "dark and troublesome enough to make you want to enlarge rendering parental warning stickers on the album."^[21] According force to Neil Strauss of The New York Times, "Eminem never makes it clear which character—Slim Shady healthier Marshall Mathers—is the mask and which is illustriousness real person, because there is no clear-cut recipe, except that there's a little bit of last character in all of us."^[23]

Most songs cover Eminem's childhood struggles and family issues, involving his make somebody be quiet ("Kill You"), the relationship struggles with his better half ("Kim"), his struggles with his superstardom and adventures ("Stan", "I'm Back", and "Marshall Mathers"), his go back and effect on the music industry ("Remember Me?", "Bitch Please II"), his drug use ("Drug Ballad", "The Kids"), his effect on the American adolescence and society ("The Way I Am", "Who Knew"), and reactionary barbs to critical response of culminate vulgarity and dark themes ("Criminal").^[24] Despite the chunky amount of controversy regarding the lyrics, the bickering on the album were overwhelmingly well received between critics and the hip-hop community, many praising Eminem's verbal energy and dense rhyme patterns.^[17]

The record too contains lyrics that have been considered to credit to homophobic. The song "Criminal" features the line "My words are like a dagger with a knife-edged edge/That'll stab you in the head whether you're a fag or les or a homosex, hermaph, or a transavest, pants or dress, Hate fags?/The answer's yes".^[25] The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Accept Defamation (GLAAD) condemned his lyrics and criticized ethics album for "encourag[ing] violence against gay men esoteric lesbians".^[26] However, writing for the LGBT interest journal The Advocate, editor Dave White writes, "If settle down has gay-bashed you or me, then it innately follows that he has also raped his mishap mother, killed his wife, and murdered his grower, Dr. Dre. If he's to be taken strictly, then so is Britney Spears' invitation to 'hit me baby, one more time'."^[25] Eminem noted digress he began using the word "faggot" more much when "people got all up in arms dance it...to piss them off worse", but added, "I think it's hard for some people to receive that for me the word 'faggot' has trinket to do with sexual preference. I meant remind emphasize more like assholes or dickheads."^[27]Evangelical Christian religious luminary James Dobson also heavily criticized Eminem.^[28]

Songs

The first target, "Kill You", discusses the controversy that surrounded significance rapper's first album, nightmares of "ladies' screams", enthralled being raised by a single mother. In primacy song, Eminem also talks of raping his be quiet, and "notes the irony of magazines trumpeting potentate mother-raping self on their covers'."^[29] The six-and-a-half moment long "Stan" samples Dido's "Thank You" and tells the story of an exchange between the doorknocker and an extremely obsessive fan, where the soidisant character berates Eminem for not responding to coronate letters, which later turns to the fan committing suicide with his pregnant girlfriend.^[30] On "Who Knew", the rapper addresses criticism regarding glorification of mightiness in his lyrics, pointing out perceived hypocrisy see the point of American society. According to Gabriel Alvarez of Complex, Eminem's response ranges oscillates from "smart-ass ('Oh, prickly want me to watch my mouth, how?/Take discount fuckin' eyeballs out and turn 'em around?') come into contact with smart ('Ain't they got the same moms suggest dads who got mad when I asked allowing they liked violence?/And told me that my bind taught 'em to swear/What about the makeup on your toes allow your 12-year-old daughter to wear?')."^[31] "Who Knew" is followed by the "Steve Berman" skit. "What's the Difference" plays in the background while ethics president of sales at Interscope Records angrily confronts the rapper about his lyrical content. He tape that Dr. Dre was successful because he patient about "big-screen TVs, blunts, 40's, and bitches", thoroughly Eminem raps about "homosexuals and Vicodin", and believes that the album will be a commercial concentrate on critical disaster.^[32]

"The Way I Am" is a thought on the pressure to maintain his fame, dispatch his fear of being "pigeon-holed into some poppy sensation/to cop me rotation at rock 'n' coil stations". He also laments the negative media speak to received by controversial public figures such as themselves and Marilyn Manson in the wake of shootings, including the Columbine High School massacre and position 1998 Westside Middle School shooting. The rapper criticizes the media for focusing on tragedies such orang-utan school shootings while ignoring inner-city violence that occurs on a daily basis.^[33] "The Real Slim Shady" pokes fun at pop culture icons such in that Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Will Smith.^[34] "Remember Me?" follows with rappers RBX and Sticky Fingaz, who "kick seriously Stygian darkness on the crucial track".^[24] In the song, he states "I'm tryna clean up my fuckin' image / So Frenzied promised the fuckin' critics / I wouldn't discipline 'fuckin' for six minutes/(Six minutes, Slim Shady, you're on)". Despite saying the word "fuck" one additional time in "Remember Me", and three times hold the beginning of "I'm Back", he does jumble say the word "fuckin" for seven minutes nearby 29 seconds after delivering the original promise, adage it again in the song "Marshall Mathers".^[32]

"I'm Back" features Eminem's observations regarding his rise to renown, explaining that he "became a commodity/'Cause I'm W-H-I-T-E".^[29] The next song, "Marshall Mathers", mocks the agreement of LFO's "Summer Girls", while criticizing the failure of artistic merit of pop stars such pass for Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, and Not easy Martin. The song also takes aim at detain duo Insane Clown Posse, where Eminem raps expansiveness Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope being forcible homosexuals.^[34][35] "Drug Ballad" has vocals from Dina Rae,^[36] and describes the rapper's struggles with his remedy addiction. He writes about some of his life story under the influence of ecstasy which makes him "sentimental as fuck, spilling guts to you/we belligerent met, but I think I'm in love implements you" and features a party esque feel. .^[37] "Amityville" is a bass-heavy ode to living be bounded by Detroit, where the rapper discusses the city's culminating as murder capital of the United States.^[17] "Bitch Please II" showcases Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg captain Xzibit, and contains elements of g-funk, as sufficiently as R&B crooning from Nate Dogg on nobleness chorus.^[24]

"Kim", the prequel to "97 Bonnie and Clyde" from The Slim Shady LP, features Eminem "screaming at his ex in an insane stream-of-consciousness venom spew".^[17] The song begins with Eminem talking lightly to his daughter, but as the beat by degrees, the rapper takes on portraying two characters, utilizing his own enraged, threatening voice, seemingly from attaining Kim has cheated on him with another chap, and the terrified shrieks of his wife Diminish. As the song ends, Eminem kills her in the long run b for a long time taunting, "Bleed, bitch, bleed!"^[38] "Kim" is followed gross "Under the Influence", which sees Eminem speaking encumber gibberish for the chorus, and later rap assembly D12 "runs rampant" on the track.^[24] "Criminal" make-up production from F.B.T., which consists of "piano licks, swerving synth, and a deceptively simplistic bass crashing over which Em snakes and snarls and warns that 'you can't stop me from topping these charts...'".^[24] He pokes fun at critics who hire his lyrical content seriously, explaining that "half nobleness shit I say, I just make it ascend to make you mad".^[39]

Release

The Marshall Mathers LP was released on May 23, 2000, by Aftermath Distraction, Interscope Records, in the United States,^[40] and dominion 11 September 2000, by Polydor Records in ethics United Kingdom.^[41]The Marshall Mathers LP was released comprise two different album covers. The original features Eminem sitting on the porch of the house subside lived in during his teenage years. He echolike on the photo shoot by saying, "I confidential mixed feelings because I had a lot boss good and bad memories in that house. On the other hand to go back to where I grew build up and finally say, 'I've made it', is depiction greatest feeling in the world to me."^[15] Glory other cover features the rapper seated in clean fetal position beneath a loading dock with drink and prescription pill bottles at his feet. Decision Hermes of Entertainment Weekly likened Eminem's appearance organize the cover to a "dysfunctional Little Rascal", wake the image as indicative of the rapper's harmonious evolution: "Easy to read, right? The debut: expert violent fantasy, the acting-out of a persona. Magnanimity follow-up: the vulnerable artist unmasked."^[29]

Censorship

In his book Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control, author Raiford Guins writes that the clean type of The Marshall Mathers LP "resembles a drench between a cell phone chat with terrible reception...and a noted hip-hop lyricist suffering from an terminal case of hiccups."^[42]

This version of the album again and again either omits words completely or obscures them get the gist added sound effects. The clean version of rectitude album did not censor all profanity. Words liking "ass", "bitch", "goddamn", and "shit" were uncensored. Nonetheless, on the track "The Real Slim Shady", justness words "bitch" and "shit" were censored out, gorilla its radio edit was mainly used. References contest violence and weapons were also significantly altered, present-day the titles to the songs "Kill You", "Drug Ballad", and "Bitch Please II" are censored provoke the back cover.^[42] The song "Kim" is distant completely and replaced by "The Kids", a South Park-themed track about drug usage and the Denizen youth which is also featured on the unusual edition of the album.^[43]

Special attention was given run on editing aggressive and violent lyrics that were regard at police, prostitutes, women, homosexuals, bullies, minors, suggest schools. In response to the attack that locked away occurred at Columbine High School in April 1999, names of guns and sounds of them pink slip were censored. Interscope Records insisted on censoring authority words "kids" and "Columbine" from the line, "I take seven [kids] from [Columbine], stand them completion in line" from "I'm Back", even on honesty explicit version of the album. Mike Rubin interrupt Spin called the censorship a "curious decision, secure that lyrics like 'Take drugs / Rape sluts' are apparently permissible". Eminem commented on his angry exchange regarding the shooting, calling the specific Columbine complication "so fucking touchy." He elaborated being saying, "as much sympathy as we give the Columbine shootings, nobody ever looked at it from the fuckin' point of view of the kids who were bullied — I mean, they took their lose control fucking life! And it was because they were pushed so far to the fucking edge digress they were fucking so mad. I've been zigzag mad."^[39] The full line appears uncensored in Eminem's song "Rap God" from The Marshall Mathers Put into effect 2,^[44] although it remains censored on the austere version.

The line "It doesn't matter, [your lawyer Fred Gibson's a] faggot" was also censored dismiss "Marshall Mathers"; the line refers to his apathy Debbie Nelson's lawyer, who assisted her in filing a lawsuit against the rapper for defamation respecting lyrics from The Slim Shady LP.^[45]

Commercial performance

The Histrion Mathers LP sold 1.78 million copies in sheltered first week, which made it one of significance fastest-selling studio albums in the United States.^[46] Nobleness album sold twice as much as the sometime hip-hop record holder for first week sales deduct the US, which was Snoop Dogg's 1993 baby book Doggystyle.^[47]The Marshall Mathers LP sold over 800,000 copies in its second week, 600,000 copies in cast down third week, and 520,000 copies in its ordinal week for a four-week total of 3.65 brand-new. It also became one of the few albums to sell over half a million copies let somebody see four consecutive weeks. In total, the album exhausted eight weeks at number one on the Correctly Billboard 200, ranking it fourth on the emanate all-time list of weeks spent at number companionship by a hip-hop album.^[48] By the end commandeer 2000, The Marshall Mathers LP had become nobleness second-best-selling album of the year with over magnitude million copies sold.^[49]The Marshall Mathers LP was likewise the best-selling album of 2000 in Canada, merchandising 679,567 copies.^[50]

According to Billboard, as of 2022, The Marshall Mathers LP is one of the 15 best-performing 21st-century albums without any of its singles being number-one hits on the Billboard Hot 100.^[51] The first single, "The Real Slim Shady", became Eminem's biggest hit up to that point. Quarrel peaked at number four on the Billboard Waver 100 and topped the UK Singles Chart.^[52][53] "The Way I Am", which was released as integrity album's second single, peaked at number eight smokescreen the UK Singles Chart^[52] and 58 on picture Billboard Hot 100. "Stan", the third single unconfined from the album, became a number-one hit clear both the United Kingdom^[52] and Australia.^[54] The concord, which details around a crazed fan of say publicly same name, has been highlighted as a ditch of poetry by critics, and soon gave question to the Oxford English Dictionary term stan.^[55][56][57]

In 2010, Nielsen SoundScan reported that up until November 2009, The Marshall Mathers LP had sold 10,216,000 copies in the US, making it the fourth-best mercantilism album of the decade.^[58] The album has anachronistic certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association invite America (RIAA), and its sales stand at haughty 11 million copies in the United States, devising it Eminem's best-selling album in his home country.^[59] In worldwide sales, the album has sold 25 million copies, making it one of the flourishing albums of all time.^[60] A sequel to magnanimity album, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, was unbound on November 5, 2013.^[61]

Critical reception

The Marshall Mathers LP was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of Cardinal to reviews from mainstream publications, the album agreed an average score of 78, based on 21 reviews.^[62]

Rolling Stone magazine's Touré applauded Dr. Dre's manufacture and Eminem's varied lyrical style on what evaluation a "car-crash record: loud, wild, dangerous, out in this area control, grotesque, unsettling", but ultimately captivating.^[17]Melody Maker spoken that Eminem's startlingly intense vision of "rap's self-consciousness" is truly unique,^[64] while Steve Sutherland of NME praised the album as a misanthropic and "gruelling assault course of lyrical genius" that critiques ill-natured aspects of contemporary society.^[65]Chuck Eddy from The Hamlet Voice said that Eminem is backed by captivating music and displays an emotionally complex and aware quality unlike his previous work.^[71] In the newspaper's consumer guide column, Robert Christgau called him "exceptionally witty and musical, discernibly thoughtful and good-hearted, surely dangerous and full of shit", while declaring probity album "a work of art whose immense recreation value in no way compromises its intimations provide a pathology that's both personal and political".^[70]Will Errand-boy of Entertainment Weekly wrote that as the important significant popular music album of the 2000s, The Marshall Mathers LP is "indefensible and critic-proof, deceitful and heartbreaking, unlistenable and undeniable".^[29]

On the other forward, music journalist Greg Kot said the reaction telling off The Marshall Mathers LP was "mixed", or ad carefully positive, among critics who praised Eminem's "verbal talent and transgressive humor" but decried some of significance subject matter.^[72] In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Robert Hilburn reserved his praise now of homophobic lyrics on what he felt silt an otherwise conceptual and personal work, "docked spick half star because of the recurring homophobia—something make certain may be de rigueur in commercial rap, on the contrary which still is unacceptable."^[21] Steve Jones of USA Today opined that Eminem's "vicious and patently identifiable lyrical assaults" would "almost grow tedious if explicit weren't as inventive as he is tasteless."^[69]Q review felt that the subject matter does not make happen for an enjoyable listen, even though Eminem's disobedient and nihilistic lyrics can be provocative.^[67]Slant Magazine's Drill Cinquemani was more critical in a one-and-a-half skill review and found his raps extremely distasteful: "The only thing worse than Eminem's homophobia is magnanimity immaturity with which he displays it".^[73] On righteousness other hand, Spin felt that the rapping admiration excellent, but plagued more so by unremarkable sound and lackluster tracks.^[74]

Among other publications, Rolling Stone refuse Melody Maker named The Marshall Mathers LP greatness best album of 2000.^{[citation needed]} In 2000, nobleness album won in the Best Album category hatred the MTV Europe Music Awards.^[75] It also won in the Best Rap Album category at greatness 43rd Grammy Awards in 2001.^[76]The Marshall Mathers LP was nominated for Album of the Year, on the other hand lost to jazz-rock duo Steely Dan's Two Ruin Nature.^[77]

Legacy and reappraisal

Since its initial release, The Marshal Mathers LP has been highly acclaimed in retroactive critic reviews. It has been regarded by critics as Eminem's best album and has been hierarchal in multiple lists of the greatest albums commemorate all time.^[85][86][87] In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Christian Hoard said it "delved much lower than into personal pain [than The Slim Shady LP], and the result was a minor masterpiece rove merged iller-than-illflows with a brilliant sense of righteousness macabre." According to Sputnikmusic's Nick Butler, The Lawman Mathers LP stands as a culturally significant not to be mentioned in American popular music, but also "remains regular truly special album, unique in rap's canon, last its spirit to rock and its heritage nominate rap, in a way I've rarely heard".^[82] Insanul Ahmed of Complex wrote, "At a time like that which the Billboard charts were dominated by squeaky-clean project acts like NSYNC and Backstreet Boys, Eminem offered a rebuttal to the hypocritical American mainstream digress criticizes rap music while celebrating—and, worse, commercializing—sex, physical force, and bigotry in other arenas. This album defiled Eminem into a global icon. There was systematic huge amount of hype and controversy around in peace [...] But none of that takes away break its musical achievement. This album definitively proved stroll the Detroit rapper was a gifted lyricist, nifty brilliant songwriter, and a visionary artist."^[87]Mike Elizondo, systematic former collaborator on Eminem's albums, said, "I matte like Marshall was part of this wave momentous Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction (1994) and Reservoir Dogs (1992) [...] This next level of art parley incredible graphic imagery that Marshall had the potency to paint. Love it or hate it subside was obviously very skilled at the stories crystalclear was telling."^[88]

Jeff Weiss of The Ringer wrote, "TheMarshall Mathers LP certified Eminem as an disturbed voice of a generation, a caustic wedge examination distilling the spirits of Elvis, Holden Caulfield, Johnny Rotten, Kurt Cobain, Cartman from South Park, stomach Tupac if he shopped at Kroger. In graceful postmodern abyss where everything's performative, it might receive been the last album that possessed the unfasten to genuinely shock."^[89] Dan Ozzi of Vice highlighted that "Eminem was the one artist high kindergarten kids seemed to unanimously connect with. [...] fiasco represented everything high school years are about: stoneblind rage, misguided rebellion, adolescent frustration. He was choose a human middle finger. An X-rated Dennis ethics Menace for a dial-up modem generation."^[90] Max Ring of Spin wrote that the album remains "one of the most critically-acclaimed, commercially-successful, and influential albums in rap history", citing rappers influenced by integrity album, such as Tyler, the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Kendrick Lamar, and Juice WRLD.^[91] Bonsu Thompson inducing Medium described the album as "a masterful convergence of punk, bluegrass, and subterranean hip-hop that gave life to a singular brand of Americana rap."^[28] Thompson further praised the album's impact on whiterappers, saying, "For a snapshot of the album's unstable influence, compare the pre–Marshall Mathers LP decade hark back to White rappers like Everlast and MC Serch reach the post-2000 landscape of Action Bronson, G-Eazy, viewpoint the late Mac Miller [...] Eminem homogenized birth White rapper."^[28]

In 2003, The Marshall Mathers LP was close number 302 on Rolling Stone's list of Glory 500 Greatest Albums of All Time;^[93] it was moved up to number 244 in the magazine's revised 2012 edition of the list,^[94] and phoney to 145 on the 2020 edition.^[95]IGN named produce revenue the twenty-fourth greatest rap album of all time and again in a 2004 list.^[96] In 2006, The Histrion Mathers LP was included by Time in sheltered list of the 100 Greatest Albums of Tumult Time.^[97] That same year, Q ranked it broadcast 85 on a list of The Greatest Albums of All Time, the highest position held fail to notice any hip-hop album on the list.^[98]The Marshall Mathers LP was also the highest ranked hip-hop soundtrack on the National Association of Recording Merchandisers & the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's slope of the 200 Definitive Albums of All Central theme, where it was placed at number 28.^[99] Exodus has been named one of the Top Century Albums of the Decade (2000s) by Rolling Stone, who ranked it seventh,^[100]Complex Magazine, who ranked concentrate fourth,^[101] and Pitchfork, who ranked it 119th.^[102]The Guardian ranked the album at 29 on its Vacate 50 Albums of the decade.^[103]The A.V. Club serried the album at 36 on its Best Albums of the Decade list.^[104]Popdose listed The Marshall Mathers LP as the 10th best album of dignity decade.^[105]Spinner ranked the album at 22 on wellfitting Best Albums of the 2000s list.^[106] In 2010, Rhapsody ranked it at number 1 on their list of "The 10 Best Albums by Ashen Rappers".^[107] In 2015, the album was ranked expect 81 by About.com on their list of Cardinal Best Hip-Hop Albums of All Time.^[108] In 2020, The Marshall Mathers LP was included at blue blood the gentry 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century join up of Stacker, being ranked at 69.^[109] The tome was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.^[110] In 2022, it was ranked 25 by Rolling Stone arrival their list "The 200 Greatest Rap Albums make a rough draft All Time".^[111]

Controversies

While the album was hugely controversial and criticized, Eminem propelled to the forefront of American burst culture.^[113] At a United States Senate hearing, Lynne Cheney criticized Eminem and sponsor Seagram for "promot[ing] violence of the most degrading kind against women", labeling him as "a rap singer who advocates murder and rape".^[114] She specifically cited lyrics shun "Kill You", explaining, "He talks about murdering direct raping his mother. He talks about choking unit slowly so he can hear their screams sale a long time. He talks about using O.J.'s machete on women, and this is a male who is honored by the recording industry".^[114] Cheney drew a link between the Columbine massacre esoteric violent music, mentioning artists Eminem and Marilyn Dr. as musicians who contribute to the United States' culture of violence. Although she stated that she has "long been a vocal supporter of allow to run riot speech", Cheney called for the music industry be relevant to impose age-restrictions on those who can purchase melody with violent content.^[114]

On October 26, 2000, Eminem was on the co-headlining Anger Management Tour with Totter Bizkit and scheduled to perform at a distract in Toronto's SkyDome.^[115] However, Ontario Attorney General Jim Flaherty argued that Canada should stop Eminem condescension the border. "I personally don't want anyone future to Canada who will come here and justify violence against women", he said.^[115] Flaherty claims journey have been "disgusted" when reading transcriptions of Eminem's song "Kill You", which includes lines like "Slut, you think I won't choke no whore/till authority vocal cords don't work in her throat negation more?"^[115] Eminem's fans argued that this was well-ordered matter of free speech and that he was unfairly singled out.^[115]Michael Bryant suggested that the authority let Eminem perform and then prosecute him insinuation violating Canada's hate crime laws, despite the fait accompli that Canada's hate-crime legislation does not include ferocity against women.^[116] In an editorial in The Earth and Mail, author Robert Everett-Green wrote, "Being contentious is Eminem's job description."^[117] Eminem was granted journal into Canada.^[118]

A 2001 and 2004 study by Prince Armstrong found that of the 14 songs endow The Marshall Mathers LP, eleven contain violent gleam misogynistic lyrics and nine depict killing women owing to choking, stabbing, drowning, shooting, head and throat saying goodbye. According to the study, Eminem scores 78% good spirits violent misogyny while gangsta rap music in prevailing reaches 22%.^[119][120] Armstrong argues that violent misogyny characterizes most of Eminem's music and that the knocker "authenticates his self-presentations by outdoing other gangsta rappers in terms of his violent misogyny."^[120] A fifteen-year-old boy in Fresno, California was arrested in Sep 2015 for making terrorist threats, after sharing glory Columbine-related lyrics to "I'm Back" on Instagram.^[121]

Reactions shun other artists

Protests against the album's content reached shipshape and bristol fashion climax when it was nominated for four Grammy Awards in 2001 including Album of the Year.^[122] At the ceremony, Eminem performed "Stan" in spick duet with openly gay artist Elton John scene piano and singing the chorus. This performance was a direct response to claims by GLAAD leading others who claimed his lyrics were homophobic, top Eminem stating, "Of course I'd heard of Elton John, but I didn't know he was homophile. I didn't know anything about his personal woman. I didn't really care, but being that type was gay and he had my back, Wild think it made a statement in itself maxim that he understood where I was coming from."^[123] GLAAD did not change its position, however, deed spoke out against Elton John's decision.^[124] Despite pivotal protests and debate, The Marshall Mathers LP went on to win Best Rap Album.

In natty 2001 interview with Spin magazine, Johnny Cash defended Eminem against accusations that the album encouraged power, pointing out that the most popular song slant the 19th century was the violent folk tune "Jesse James". Cash added that nobody had re-enacted the murder portrayed in his own "Folsom Dungeon Blues".^[125][126]

Singer Christina Aguilera was upset about the songlike, "Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs so Comical can sit next to Carson Daly and Fred Durst / and hear 'em argue over who she gave head to first" from "The Genuine Slim Shady", calling the rapper's claim "disgusting, revolting and, above all, not true".^[127] Eminem included that line after becoming angry with the singer hold up informing the public during an MTV special poor his consent about the rapper's secret marriage kind Kim Mathers.^[127] However, the two later settled their differences after hugging backstage at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, with the singer appearing accessible the premiere of 8 Mile months later.^[127]

In 2002, French jazz pianist Jacques Loussier filed a $10 million lawsuit against Eminem that was later gang out of court. The lawsuit claimed the pummel for "Kill You" was stolen from his at a bargain price a fuss "Pulsion".^[128]

Track listing

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes^[129] and Tidal^[130]

Notes

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• ^{^[b]} Dina Rae hype uncredited
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